LUGR Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Actually, yes. Adam Jackson did sign up here. He was recently reflecting on his Adam's block experience: "It’s hard to put everything in words. The AdamsBlock chapter of my life was both the best and the worst. If anyone was going to make it work, it was me but I gave up too early. Most entrepreneurs that give up do so because of exhaustion, lack of motivation and the difficulty of being the only person who cares about the idea. I didn’t have those problems. My failure was something different from the standard list of startup failures. It wasn’t for a lack of exhaustion. My failure was out of fear for my life and my girlfriend’s at the time. How many startups have this problem? CNN and NPR are banging down your door along with thugs who want you to stop broadcasting and go back to the way things were and the investors are excited and you’re getting phone calls from police departments all over the world and camera companies are giving you credit lines to secure recording equipment and both citizens and engineering talent are messaging you daily asking to be involved. It’s not something entrepreneurs usually deal with. That was my situation. While that was happening, my life was becoming a living hell. I had a full time job, a blog, a networking event every night and a girlfriend who saw me far too little on weeks where I’d just live at the office and never come home and then I had this other thing that was pulling on me to jump in 100%. I still receive monthly emails from people asking me about AdamsBlock. I still see it referenced in documentaries about the Internet and transparency. Occupy Wall Street has brought more attention to citizen policing and activism. Our direct connection to news as it happens is still live streaming from mobile phones via Ustream or Justin.TV. It’s been 3 years since my camera turned off at 250 Taylor Street. It came off the week following my return from Reno and has remained off since then. I have the Logitech QuickCam in my office. I use it for Skype calls. A $99 web cam connected to an old PC garnered millions of views via a free Justin.TV account. It’s remarkable. It took a year after that camera turning off to sleep well again. My sleep schedule wasn’t affected by the thugs who continued to harass me and force me to move out of my apartment with death threats and attempted burglary. My sleep was affected by the pain in my heart of knowing that this would truly change the world and I gave up far too soon. I had the chance to change the world with a product that was far more important than my meager life and I didn’t go through with it. I gave up on something that could have changed the world. Maybe I’m delusional but when our recording saves someone’s life who was beat live on camera and when rape victims email you begging a camera to be put up at their work parking lot and when the San Francisco Police email me following a murder assuming that AdamsBlock is live on some random street corner in The Mission, well it’s a drive that you just can’t ignore. I couldn’t ignore it and I gave up. ——– It’s doubtful that I’ll ever renew my commitment to AdamsBlock going forward. Clearly, I should be the founder not because I started it but because if you saw the documents I have on my hard drive with plans, expansion details and hardware and server specifications, you’d see that all of the footwork has been done. AdamsBlock is 90% ready to launch and of course I should be the one to do it. I probably never will. This is an open message to all of the entrepreneurs who follow me. Those who follow me may now see why I get so pissed off when a new app comes out to post photos to Twitter or someone makes a fart app or Google wastes money building another social network. I get so angry because this is not what technology should be used for. Millions of people are affected by violent crimes every year and there’s an opportunity for us to provide a voice to those who are attacked when the sun goes down in back alleys and parking lots. One webcam with a 3G card can save someone’s life and we’re wasting our time making Twitter apps. Why? Because Twitter apps are too easy. Sharing a photo of your food is not easier from a technical standpoint but it’s easier from an emotional standpoint. If you fail, a few less photos of someone’s breakfast are lost but, if you lose at AdamsBlock, thousands of people’s lives are at risk. I don’t have the emotional capacity to take on AdamsBlock again but I want to help an entrepreneur. If you think this is something you can do, I’ll give you the entire tamale from IP to documents to domain names to contacts with law enforcement agencies. I’ll help you to succeed. Friends of mine know that I still have a hole in my heart where AdamsBlock was. The haters thought I was trying to profit from the pain of others but I don’t want any money. I Just want a company to be built around truly changing the world and not a social networking feature. Do you have what it takes? I hope so because I sure don’t. 2,790 Results on Google for content and articles about AdamsBlock. Not bad for a $99 webcam on a Justin.TV page." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 "networking event every night" - World of Warcraft :haha: Dudes still trying to say he wasn't interested in money when he was trying to sell those shirts w the homeless guy on em and shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 adams block was a terrible idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUGR Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I would really like to know what police stations around the world were calling him about his brilliant idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wouldn't wearing a mask counter whatever Adamsblock is able to do? I did not know what that was and had to look it up. Am I missing something, isn't it just a camera in the window? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLovin Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I can never get on 12oz. Only works on my iPhone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cool_Hand Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 i had to buy a new computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Nope, logging out on the front page is what actually fucked me for good. Now I try and log back in and it tells me there is no response from the server. I try and log in via the forum and I get a blank white page. This is some silly username I had on my phone trying to trick the crossfire folk into believing that I was the leader of the Druze in Lebanon, which I'm pretty sure I succeeded in doing. Now it's the only part of the 12OZ me that still functions. Might try a few Viagra and see if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Actually, I just tried logging in from the forum with this name and it worked!! Fuck it, this is the new me now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchThe$nitch Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 @MERCER i tried that, now both of my pc's are fucked up with this log in nonsense. oontz needs repairz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 walid/christo: when i get the 'no response from server' its because i mis type the PW or just put the wrong PW in. might be what you're dealing with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 2011 - cant log out oontz 2012 - cant log in oontz TrollFace.jpeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 This. I've got it down to a science now, but shit is still rah-tarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bojangles Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 And since we're mixing social networking and graffiti... That's from me to you guyz. B sure 2 friend me. Lolz!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysOverDoinn Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Yeah I've done what Mercer said to do also, but it still fucks up here and there. The only way I've found that works to stop it from logging me out while im still logged in or watever, is keeping the oontz open in a tab all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexcauldron Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Tried and tried and tried and finally I was able to actually log in. Did nothing special just kept trying the same shit. On a different note, how is that Adamsblock thing any different than blue light cameras in high crime areas? I mean am I really supposed to believe that garbage? Dude was gonna change the world by putting up webcams, how is that even a project? There are countless cameras in hundreds of cities, what did he do that was so novel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!DoNkE*PuNchA! Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Childless men, I have a son. I find time to browse, thats what Toy storys and Land before time is for its like adderall for toddlers!!!!!!! "Im lurking oontz on the I phone" UGHH insert rick ross pic////// 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 So will this ever be fixed or is all the extra traffic to the main page "good for business?" /nocynical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McLovin Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 anyone else getting this on occasion or is it just me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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